The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.
You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.
If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it.
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.